June 5, 2011

We're in the final testing phase! I think it looks beautiful — very crisp and clean. And I think you're going to love what the comments page looks like. It will have buttons to make it easy to do links, blockquotes, boldface, and italics.

After all these years, I will be breaking out of Blogger. The new blog will be here.

Ann, I hope you will consider that many of us will be viewing your blog primarily on an Android phone or iPhone. If a small format screen makes the design blow apart, or if it makes it difficult or impossible to post comments, you could potentially be pushing away new readers who don't want the hassle.

This is my biggest complaint about Blogger. It's not that I can't produce a link, I just refuse to do it. There is no reason one should be required to lapse into HTML for such a basic Web function in 2011.

Coketown brings up an important point. People have developed a presence here around their names. Were someone so inclined, he or she could wreak havoc by registering some of these names on the new site.

I would suggest that before you go live you register the user names of some of the more frequent commenters here. Otherwise someone could hijack you identity and post using your name. Imagine Jeremy posting under Fen's name or Robert Cook posting as Dust Bunny Queen or Garage Mahal posting as AllenS.

This sounds kind of fishy to me. You should be able to just transfer over your google identity as many of the commenters have established a definite persona.

Please explain how this would work to those of us who are not as techincally savy as we should be.

If the last place I worked had given that something more than lip service on the last big project in which I participated, they might still have the market share they enjoyed at the time.

Trooper York said...

I would suggest that before you go live you register the user names of some of the more frequent commenters here. Otherwise someone could hijack you identity and post using your name. Imagine Jeremy posting under Fen's name or Robert Cook posting as Dust Bunny Queen or Garage Mahal posting as AllenS

I'd like to see The Althouse Woman institute a comment registration application. Whereas, you would have to post your screen name, but have to register to comment with your full name, and an email address so she could ok your registration. How many asshole driveby trolls would show up? None. That would be a good thing.

I'm happy to report that the new blog does support strikeouts, I used one in the comment I posted there last week.

Professor- You are going to save that test post that includes my comment, aren't you? I want to be on record as the first real commenter at your new site, but for the moment at least that post is gone.

A new woman has come forward with what she claims are photographs, chats, and emails with Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY). These appear to undermine severely Rep. Weiner’s explanations that he was the victim of a “prank” or a “hack.”

The detailed new information suggests that the Brooklyn- and Queens-based representative and the young woman in question were involved in an online, consensual relationship involving the mutual exchange of intimate photographs.

"He's the publicity hog that put himself into the public eye, and if his life has been ruined--which is unlikely--it is by his own doing."

All he did was ask his President a simple question about small business tax policy while standing on the sidewalk when the president walked by and shook his hand during a campaign event. That's hardly being a publicity hound.

The moment he did that though, Democrat Party state officials launched illegal searches into state databases trying to dig up dirt on the poor man.

Prior to the 2008 election, Vanessa Niekamp, an employee of Ohio's Department of Job and Family Services, at the behest of its director, Helen Jones-Kelley, used state computers to search for information on Joe Wurzelbacher. On November 20, 2008, Niekamp reported the violation to the State Inspector General. State and local officials completed an investigation into Jones-Kelley's order, concluding that the searches were improper. On December 17, 2008, Jones-Kelley resigned in disgrace.

In response to the event, Republican Shannon Jones sponsored House Bill 648, which mandates civil and criminal penalties for illegal access of personal information on state databases. On January 6, 2009, Governor Ted Strickland signed the legislation.

I can't log in via WordPress. Even after I invented a new user name after being told ricpic was taken. They accepted the new user name. But now they tell me my email address is invalid. Will we have to log in via Word Press to comment at the new Althouse? Put another way, will we have to have a WordPress account to comment at Althouse?

I left Blogger a few years ago after it decided that I -- you know, the account holder -- apparently posted too much and might be a spammer so on every post it made me enter a word verification. Attempts to contact Blogger to correct it were unsuccessful. So I loaded WordPress onto my own site and it's done (fairly) fine ever since.

I worked up a slight revision to your logo to tighten up the kerning where it looked too spaced out. It's a subtle edit, but I think it makes it look more logo-y rather than just type. (Althouse is a brand!)

They'll move. I'd hate having this blog, which I've worked so hard on, just end and begin again somewhere else. And a big reason for the move is that I don't trust Blogger not to delete me again. I care a lot about the archive and want to preserve it.